William Morris Stewart

William Morris Stewart (9 August 1827-23 April 1909) was a US Senator from Nevada (R) from 1 February 1865 to 3 March 1875, preceding William Sharon, and from 4 March 1887 to 3 March 1905, succeeding James G. Fair and preceding George S. Nixon.

Biography
William Morris Stewart was born in Galen, New York in 1827, and he moved to Trumbull County, Ohio as a young child. In 1850, he left Yale University for California, and he began mining near Nevada City after a spell in San Francisco. In 1852, he stopped mining and decided to become a lawyer, and he almost immediately became a district attorney. In 1854, he briefly served as Attorney General of California, and he moved to Virginia City, Nevada in 1860. In 1864, he helped to develop Nevada's state constitution, and he was one of its inaugural US Senators from 1865 to 1875; he returned to the Senate from 1887 to 1905. He caucused with the Silver Republicans from 1893 to 1901, and he retired in 1905. He died in 1909.